Franco Colapinto has been an F1 2025 “disappointment” in the opinion of former F1 driver Christian Danner.

To Danner’s mind, Colapinto “doesn’t deliver anything tangible on track”. The former Zakspeed, Osella, Arrows and Rial driver also took aim at Colapinto’s fans, who he finds “really extreme”.

Franco Colapinto: The right driver for Alpine?

Additional reporting by Thomas Maher

Colapinto turned heads when he burst onto the Formula 1 scene in 2024. After a respectable junior career, the Argentine was called-up by Williams as a mid-season replacement for Logan Sargeant.

He scored five points, and for a time was even linked with joining the Red Bull fold.

No space opened up for Colapinto on the initial F1 2025 grid, but having joined Alpine as a reserve, he was soon linked with Jack

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